Jul 5, 2011
In a trailer park in the US state of Alabama, the reality of a strict new anti-illegal immigration law comes to the fore, a reality that cuts through the blaming, the endless bickering, the legal and political manoeuvring that preceded its enactment.
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If you thought the do-it-yourself anti-immigrant schemes couldn't get any more repellent, you were wrong. New laws in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are following — and in some ways outdoing — Arizona's attempt to engineer the mass expulsion of the undocumented, no matter the damage to the Constitution,...
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Louisiana and other states have recently approved laws requiring employers to use the federal E-Verify system to check the legal status of every worker and flag undocumented immigrants. But E-Verify alone is no solution for our nation's immigration problems, as President Barack Obama recently emphasized.
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Former U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) said Sunday that Jose Antonio Vargas, the former Washington Post reporter who came out last month as an illegal immigrant, should be allowed to "become an American."
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It's apt that this coming Monday is Independence Day, because it's been inspiring to see so many students stand up to speak about why they love America and why they are Americans. Watch our short clip from the DREAMers below, and happy Fourth of July!
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Responding to growing criticism from law enforcement and elected officials across the country, who say DHS' Secure Communities program is hurting the relationship between local police and the community that is essential to fighting crime, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton announced minor changes last month. Morton...
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A Southern Baptist Convention leader says the group's policy arm supports a version of the DREAM Act — the proposed law that would allow illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to earn legal status, either by going to college or serving in the military.
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Immigration officials have called off the deportation of a Venezuelan man who legally married his same-sex partner in the United States, a move advocates hope will push the Obama administration to halt similar deportations and help repeal a federal law that recognizes only marriages between a man and a...
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Recently announced tweaks to a key immigration enforcement program should make the effort more true to its intended purpose and reassure critics. Secure Communities has been battered by those who say it deports some illegal immigrants who have no criminal background or only minor offenses on their records.
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Imagine an undocumented high school student who won't let a little thing like not being in the country legally stop him from applying to a top university. Those who set their sights on Harvard will often seek me out for advice because, almost 20 years ago, I wrote a...
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